Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Renaissance Guy: the James Franco Series NYC

To me there is nothing more crazy making and confining than labels ; one or two words that we come up with to size someone up. Define them. Pigeonhole them into a box so that that they can be understood, processed. We are hugely multifaceted beings, with talents sometimes emerging all at once,sometimes time released style, sometimes sadly not at all if we overlook our interests and instincts. Every once in a while though, an artist emerges that transcends labels because they seemingly do it all, and do it well.Writer, painter, director and actor James Franco is one of those rare birds. Fearless,visionary, mercurial and boundary breaking, he moves to the beat of his own drum. He goes from perfect stillness to rapid movement and back again, laughs easily, stares intently and has an epicene quality that seems to laugh in the face of gender stereotypes. All the makings of a true art star.

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I take my camera everywhere. Sometimes I make the picture, sometimes it comes to me; I am just there to document it, but every subject I shoot, I know that I'm meant to. This blog is a scrapbook of pictures,interests and people who inspire something in me. Both my grandfathers were photographers.My Father,who I am named after,is an Emmy winning documentary film maker and our cousin was Basquiat. I can only see the necessity to create as something genetic. Painting to me, is the Gemini twin of photography; the private,internal balance to the social external one. Whether I'm photographing or painting a tree, an actor, a skyline,rockstar,a hawk or a yogi, I always walk away having learned something about life,love,art and faith. And isn't that what it's all about? Oh yeah,and all of THESE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE COPYRIGHTED UNDER LAW AND CANNOT BE COPIED,REPRINTED,
OR USED IN ANY OTHER FORMAT WITHOUT ARTISTS PERMISSION . THANKS FOR VISITING!